How many times have we seen the CCSS Machine invite us to a place at the community table for education? It’s been many times, right? How many of those times have we seen the Delphi method used? (Delphi methods invite people in to have a discussion and then drive the discussion to predetermined results which has nothing to do with the people’s input.)

We’ve seen this tactic repeatedly used against us, Warriors. It stinks. Thanks to ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) and its mandates for MORE federal control in education, the Delphi method was launched in every ‘stakeholder’ meeting; every ESSA forum for ideas and suggestions; and, it was pulled off right under our noses.

To add insult to injury, NOW, the States are rolling out all kinds of meetings across their boundaries. These meetings are a continued effort to attract (under false pretenses) community citizens to become involved in ‘local’ education.

The example? Why, NC (North Carolina), of course. Warriors, you know it’s where I live. You also know, from a few articles ago, the State education, business, and, political leaders are rolling out the CCSS Machine bandwagon fallacies.

The leaders want SO much for NC to be a national leader of ‘local education’. Yet, look behind the facade and you’ll see the same egregiousness here, that is happening THERE (wherever you live).

To be more specific about the latest NC example of CCSS Machine education alignment, think ‘innovation’. As in ‘districts of innovation’. As in, piling on more technology, digital learning, and the data mining which goes with it. (*Note, back in 2016, I published this article about the NC ties to other States and some of their ‘districts of innovation’. Scroll down to “Part 2”.)

Before I get to the latest innovation news, let me give you some background and context.

The State Data Gets You Every Time:

Many NC leaders, especially some high profile elected officials (like Lt. Gov. Dan Forrest), have been pushing for the past few years to have MOREdigital programs and technology and more band-width internet connections in EVERY classroom across our State. (*Note: the ‘connections’ article will show you Forrest is also on the ‘school choice’ bandwagon for CCSS.)

Forrest is currently gearing up for a run as the next NC Governor. Forrest also sits on the NC SBE (State Board of Education) and has signed at least one resolution damning our students across the State to MORECCSS aligned CTE (Career Tech Education), because, after all, jobs in NC will make our State excel above others. His initiativefor 1 technology device for every single student is also a death knell in education.

How? A computer in every student’s hands will some how many education even better. Yep, and let’s recall the plethora of articles proving how damaging too much computer access, time, and, education is literally sucking the life out of students.

All this technology is tied to STEM (which is part of the UN, United Nations, education agenda). STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and, Math. The data mining which accompanies all this technology will make millions of dollars for the members and their organizations of the CCSS Machine.

More Background/Context Related Resources:From 2016, after ESSA became law, a look at the NC digital shift and State law which supports and promotes this activity in education.

From 2015, the ‘new’ digital upgrades NC got which most definitely set the trap for data mining in all school choices from Pre-K to adult, using technology and CTE for jobs and the economic health of the State.

From 2014, the NC Community College System, the (former) Governor of NC, McCrory, and business leaders sell out higher education for alignment to workforce based learning. (*Notes: McCrory (a conservative Republican) was Forrest’s former boss. The current Governor of NC, Cooper(a liberal Democrat) has done zero to unhinge NC from the federal overreaches in education, the alignment of cradle to career tracking systems, and everything which connects these. Serving as Lt. Governor alongside BOTH these Governors, Forrest has NOT bucked the educational alignment system either.)

The Latest Delphi Method/Innovation For NC:

Warriors, the latest innovation push is called the “Connecting Communities of Education Stakeholders (CCES)” Conference. Below is a screen shot of the topic strands for ‘innovation’:

The Conference was announced on the NC DPI (Dept. of Public Instruction). The official title of the Community Conference is “Fostering Innovation Across Our State”. The vision for all this updating in education? Warriors, you’ll ‘love’ it! According to the website page for the Conference, the coming together of all the ‘stakeholders’ for innovation’s sake, “builds capacity for continued growth and success for all learners.”

Among the goals for the Conference is ‘data-driven’ strategies and resources’.

Found in the 84 page Conference Guide, beginning March 12th, 2018, the opening breakout sessions will give teachers data gathering tools to use as they walk about their classrooms. How compliance from students will be turned into ‘engagement’, and, digital classes for coding on-line and reading for little ones. That’s just for the students. For the teachers there is digital badging in competency driven PD (professional development). For the parents? How to use Twitter for your school.

Warriors, those are just the first few breakouts. Do you see what kind of tactic is being used? While each breakout says the target audiences include parents, I wonder how many parents who can afford this Conference (about $250.00 per person), will be able to attend the breakouts where they are not mentioned in the descriptions? If they are allowed, how many will be ‘delphi-ed’?

You’ll want to scroll through the Guide to find out what other data mining, and ‘innovation’ can be found. Look for assessments, districts for innovation, any company specified. (For example, I saw PowerSchool mentioned quite a few times) You’ll also want to look for globalization of your classes, shared business and school fiscal ventures.

Closing:

Warriors, ‘innovation’ is a code word, I do believe. What’s it code for? Anything the CCSS Machine needs to happen in education can fit under ‘innovation’ and be found acceptable. The CCSS Machine needs more data to mine, track, and sell.
Easy, label a program or initiative with ‘innovation’ and presto-bingo! People buy into it. We’re being delphi-ed to death, Warriors! Our kids are being data raped every day in the name of ‘innovation’. Look at the levels of compliance, too.

A leader needs to look good so that more people will support their agendas. Easy, pop in the word ‘innovation’ or use it in connection with ’21st Century education’, and watch the support pour in!

The federal government wants to maintain its compliance with the United Nations and their global grasp on education for workforce needs. Easy, write ‘innovation’ into a piece of legislation and watch how quickly it becomes a law. Laws, which by their very existence render their illegal based overreaches as ‘treason’. When it comes to education, we are no longer a United States of America, Warriors. We’ve become the United State of Delphi.

I know when you invented the first machine which would go on to become the pattern for computers, you had no plans to see your creation turned into a tool to be used against people. I imagine you were just thrilled to use your math skills to build something to help them instead. It probably was hard being so ‘different’, back then. It hasn’t gotten much better in 2016.

I’m so sorry your hard work has been manipulated to now be on the threshold of ruining education for everyone.

(*Note: Anti CCSS Warriors, if you do not know Mr. Charles Babbage’s contributions to math or his quest to build calculators; how he is known world-wide for being the ‘father of computers’, look him up. It’s quite a great history lesson.)

‘Meet’ the Education Nanny:

Actually, Warriors, we already KNOW the ‘education nanny’: technology! We’ve seen the massive overreach of technology in our classrooms, our lives; and are now finding out how technology via ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) will INCREASE even more. You’ve read not only my research on this topic. There are other Anti CCSS Warriors who consistently share the ins-and-outs/ups-and-downs of HOW this is happening.

However, let’s briefly review:
1) The technology nanny is global and backed by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
2) No educational choice will escape the data mining that accompanies technology or the alignment to workforce based education as laid out in ESSAand connected federal laws.
3) Mandates and funding in ESSA bring the technology nanny into your home.
4) New strides are being made daily by the CCSS Machine to sell us on how MORE tech is not only a good thing, but needed to survive as a global citizen.
5) Many current candidates in every level of the 2016 elections (from federal to your town) are helping spin the technology nanny via ‘digital textbooks’, ‘better connectivity for our cities’, etc.

Examples of the technology nanny already exist,Warriors!
1) Digital badges in education for leaders AND students.
2) ‘Smart Cities’ (Part of the i3 Initiative from the White House)
3) 1:1 (one computer for one person in every classroom)
4) No textbooks/no homework (you, as a Warrior cannot fight what you cannot hold in your hand and read. You can’t help with homework when there is none. You also are losing your right to see what Johnny and Suzy are learning.)
5) Diplomas and transcripts are being phased out and replaced with national credentials which follow you throughout your education AND employment.

So, What’s Really New?

I do not know about you, but recently, I was able to see some TV ads displaying new toys. What’s so thinly veiled? The technology nanny is targeting our babies, even BEFORE they are ready to learn in a school setting. Of course, thanks to the Universal Pre K push by the current administration and ESSA’s language mandates, expect these sorts of toys to not only increase, but to become more not so thinly veiled in aligned agenda.

For example, one of the ads I saw was on a cable channel during a popular adult viewing time (after 9 pm). The ad was for the latest ‘smart baby’ coding (as in old school computer programming skills) toy.

Coding is how STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) is becoming rammed down our throats. This fits right into the Master STEM Plan I’ve been telling you about from almost the very beginning of my blog articles. If you’ve missed the Master Plan, it’s basically this: a STEM education (which was ushered in at about the same time as CCSS, so no one would really notice) for a STEM workforce to become a STEM nation.

If you look at ESSAand all its post-secondary readiness (ie: college and career readiness, challenging state academic standards, and CTE (Career Tech Education), etc.) you’ll notice that a huge portion of all this readiness is in the STEM fields. There’s also ‘region specific training’ involved.

Then look at the i3 Initiative, much of it is all about technology..from studying our brains, to Smart Cities. Then look back to ESSA.

Infrastructure to ensure every student, regardless of educational choice or location is to be 24/7 hooked into technology. If you are not sure what i3 stands for it’s “Investing in Innovation”. Related: Texas is fighting right now against having “Districts of Innovation”.

Again, look back to ESSA. Also, refer back to the White House, the “Computer Science for All” is to be joined into ESSA. Digital Promise, another White House Initiative is now codified in ESSA.

In this screen shot, you’ll see VTech has experts your parents are not only to rely on, but to seek out their advice. Considering they are aligned to CCSS, STEM, and STEAM. Most of their products are for early learners, I think that’s shameful.

As far as the STEM expert, her advice? “One of the most important things a parent should do is to expose their child early and frequently to the use of technology. Many schools are now are moving away from traditional textbooks and moving toward the use of technology for teaching and completing assignments.”

To see her entire statement full of not only agenda but a handy sales pitch, https://www.vtechkids.com/parenting/article/%7B279909C9-2D12-47A1-88B7-C974153AB22A%7D/Dr_Carla_C_Johnson_STEM__Art__STEAM

Is Purdue tied to the CCSS Machine? It’s a Land Grant University (LGUs). Between ESSA, WIOA (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act) and the HEA (Higher Education Act), LGUs are ensnared. Purdue also has begun re-inventing high school via their Polytechnic High School.

From EdSurgeNews (a media source), how SEL (Social Emotional Learning) will be used in technology.
Notice the bottom left hand corner of the image. Thanks to ESSA, SEL begins before Pre-K.

To see the entire article: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-10-17-how-to-weave-advisory-into-academics-plus-10-resources-for-teaching-sel

To be a great ‘digital/techno nannied student’, you will need ‘digital techno nannied teachers’. EdSurge News also published an article back in Aug. 2016 (which oddly resurfaced a few days ago on Twitter) about:

Warriors,I hope you can see that the intent is apparent: we are to educate for technology, not academics. I hope you can also see how interconnection all this mess is. Mr. Babbage set out to create something useful for the world. How shameful it is that those who followed in his footsteps were not so kindhearted.

If you need any of my previous published articles about i3, STEM, STEM to STEAM, etc., please either contact me in the comments section OR search the blog on your own. If we wish to preserve America, we must continue to expose the re-purposing of our educational system.

Lastly, look for my follow up article to this one, where I show you how the Congressional Budget has not only paved the way for this, but how ESSA is involved.

Warriors, we are faced with all kinds of count-downs lately. Thirty-eight days until election; so many days until a new President; count-downs until our holidays, and more.

However, regardless of ALL this counting, day in/day out, our teachers, students, and families are receiving the stinging bites of the busy bee-like CCSS Machine members/groups.

It’s enough to drive us mad. I hope we are not only mad, but as aggressive in fighting back, as the CCSS Machine is cranking out their bitter poison.

As you know, NC is where my home is for now. If you’ve followed my blog long, you know the amount of CCSS Machine alignment bred here.

As far as the picture above, that’s NC’s official state insect. As bee colonies go, there’s always a queen.

Here in NC, her name is Dr. June Atkinson. She’s our State Superintendent (probably counting down the days until she hopes to be re-elected for the umpteenth time) AND the President of the CCSSO (Council of Chief State School Officers). As you well know CCSSO has made no bones about their devotion to the CCSS Machine.

Now that our nation faces a count-down to August 2017 (When all 50 States MUST have ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) implemented), what else is in the NC CCSS apiary?

Part One:
Honey, It’s a Beehive of Deception in NC:

Recently, I was contacted by a very concerned grandparent (Grandma J) who lives west of me in Caldwell County, NC. Her concern? A conversation she had with 3 school board candidates (running for office in Nov. 2016). According to Grandma, all 3 told her that there was absolutely no Common Core in Caldwell, or in NC as a state, for that matter. That Common Core was gone.Grandma’s a Warrior, she’s invited me up to her neck of the woods several times to reveal what my anti CCSS research has found for NC, as well as our nation.

Grandma J also shared that these candidates (up for re-election) do not get to see the curriculum for their county; that they are sent papers to sign (aka: rubber stamp), told pretty much what to do, but NOT get to be a truly LOCAL Board. Well, we can thank Dr. Atkinson for that, but we’d also have to thank legislators.In the screen shot below, look at why I would say this.

Hhmmm…I’m flashing back to a 2014 NC School Board meeting in Cabarrus County (southeast of me). When I revealed credible evidence about the number of assessments truly embedded in what NC schools use, I was called a ‘lunatic’. When I challenged the school board member, what I got was ‘we do what we’re told. If Raleigh says ‘jump’, we jump. We don’t ask ‘where’, we just do it. They do tell us how to jump.’

As being a mighty Warrior, Grandma J has once again called me and asked for help. Grandma J, this is for you to share with them.

Since this one NC County (there are 100 in all) has it mandated to follow all federal and state regulations NOT in the current NC (Common Core) Essential State Standards, guess what this means?

That every piece of legislation already connected to NCLB, RttT, Common Core State Standards, College/Career Readiness, STEM, Career Tech Education, dual enrollment, early College Promise, AP classess, learn-to-earn apprenticeships, on-line virtual public NC Schools is LOCKED in! ESSA will only INCREASE the lock-down! WIOA (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act) is also not only already in place in Caldwell County, NC, but nation-wide! WIOA’s embedded in ESSA.

If you’ve traveled anywhere in NC (or in your State) and seen “One Stop Job Centers”, WIOA’s in your town and Common Core/Career Tech, including STEM are in your schools.

This screen shot reveals some eye opening evidence that the ‘NC educational sweet spin’ isn’t telling you the whole truth,

I’ve written PLENTY about how sold out to the CCSS Machine, AdvancED is. You are free to search my blog for the articles, there are that many.

However, let me share with you, an excerpt from their 2013-2014 Annual Report, “AdvancED combines the knowledge and expertise of a research institute, the skills of a management consulting firm and the passion of a grassroots movement for educational change. While our expertise is grounded in more than one hundred years of experience accrediting schools, AdvancED is much more than an accrediting agency. Our goal isn’t to certify that schools are good enough. Rather, our commitment is to help schools improve.”

4) NC’s Wikispaces where you’ll see CCSS and Essential Standards. (ES has been passed off as the ‘no CCSS’ in NC) http://www.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/

So there you go, Grandma J, lots to help your local school board see the truth!
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Part Two:
NC ‘Bred’, Nation Fed:

These websites will show you how MORE NC bee-stinging, CCSS Machine alignment is going on. If you’d like to see my vast array of articles on other NC CCSS joint efforts, please search the blog.1) Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies Inc. This NC organization (TUCASI) has been around since 1975. It’s basically a large park with lots of space for UNC (University of NC), Wake Forest University, and Duke University to combine their efforts for ‘research’. Sadly, every one of these has long since sold out to Common Core in some way. They have no plans, it appears of slowing down.

Since Common Core came to town, TUCASI been busy as a bee aligning all it can. For example, our National Humanities Institute is located here.

Sponsors of this Institute (when you go the website, it states “National Humanities Center”) include some very big CCSS Machine members, including the National Endowment of the Humanities. I exposed the Endowment back in 2015. See: https://commoncorediva.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/rmt-national-humanity-common-core-style/ (*Note: the National Endowment for the Arts has also sold out, but is not NC specific.)

To see the other research projects of TUCASI: http://www.rtp.org/tucasi/

2) Located in Carrboro, NC is the Advanced Learning Partnerships, http://www.advancedpartnerships.com/This group likes to call themselves ALP. They also love to spread their models for educational innovation for K-Higher Ed nation-wide. Leading them is Amos Fodchuk. He’s got a Masters degree and is a “veteran of the high school classroom, Amos is a National Board Certified Teacher (VA, 2006), a Fulbright Scholar and recipient of over 20 awards for educational excellence and innovation. His range of experience in the development and implementation of innovative, strategic learning models currently supports education partnerships across 25 states.”

If you’ve heard of Districts of Innovation, ALP is into it; if you’ve heard about “ClassTalk” or “Innovators PIE”, ALP is leading it. While I couldn’t find specific partners, I did see Dell Computers joined ALP for ‘blended learning’ in Georgia. See: http://www.advancedpartnerships.com/read-me/

The LIFT Initiative in WA has ALP all over it:

Closing:

Warriors, I hope that regardless of where you live, you can use this information. Grandma J’s got every right to not only be concerned, but seeking help to inform others. Remember, there are some fantastic folks in our school systems. Folks are not our target, the CCSS Machine IS! If you’ve got a fantastic school system member in trouble, you help them; you don’t attack them.

Between my eye opening article about the ICANN’s ties to the CCSS Machine/global angenda to this article, you’ve got plenty of digital/technology stuff to fill Pooh Bear’s Honey Pot several times over. BUT, there’s more. Just released late yesterday (10/3), was the announcement about several internet giants creating a new AI (Artificial Intelligence) Council. Their focus will include education/social justice/technology. Google is among them. Here’s a short video: